For The Young Who Want To Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIFJK LMNFCO PQCROS TUVWLW GXGNLY| Talent is what they say | A |
| you have after the novel | B |
| is published and favorably | C |
| reviewed Beforehand what | D |
| you have is a tedious | E |
| delusion a hobby like knitting | F |
| - | |
| Work is what you have done | G |
| after the play is produced | H |
| and the audience claps | I |
| Before that friends keep asking | F |
| when you are planning to go | J |
| out and get a job | K |
| - | |
| Genius is what they know you | L |
| had after the third volume | M |
| of remarkable poems Earlier | N |
| they accuse you of withdrawing | F |
| ask why you don't have a baby | C |
| call you a bum | O |
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| The reason people want M F A 's | P |
| take workshops with fancy names | Q |
| when all you can really | C |
| learn is a few techniques | R |
| typing instructions and some | O |
| body else's mannerisms | S |
| - | |
| is that every artist lacks | T |
| a license to hang on the wall | U |
| like your optician your vet | V |
| proving you may be a clumsy sadist | W |
| whose fillings fall into the stew | L |
| but you're certified a dentist | W |
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| The real writer is one | G |
| who really writes Talent | X |
| is an invention like phlogiston | G |
| after the fact of fire | N |
| Work is its own cure You have to | L |
| like it better than being loved | Y |
Marge Piercy
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